What Did All the Money Do?On the General Ineffectiveness of RecentWest German Labour Market Programmes
We provide new evidence on the effectiveness of West German labour market programmesby evaluating training and employment programmes that have been conducted 2000-2002after the first large reform of German labour market policy in 1998. We employ exceptionallyrich administrative data that allow us to use microeconometric matching methods and toestimate interesting effects for different types of programmes and participants at a ratherdisaggregated level...